Onyx

The playing by Pascal and Ami Rogé is spruce and mostly well balanced. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The sound of the Trpčeski recording is very good, offering clarity, detail, and solid, well-defined piano tone, with no ringing or blurring even in the loudest passages. This release will give... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020More…

This entertainment alternatives between relatively unfamiliar short works and famous showstoppers. Petrenko and his Liverpool players make the liveliest possible argument for Kabalevsky’s Colas... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding many moments of illumination. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024More…

As one might expect, these are first-rate performances of natural authority. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Where Bavouzet breaks out into blazing Mediterranean sunlight, Rogé is happy to withdraw into shadow-land. Time and again his playing suggests emotion recollected in tranquillity rather than... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2008More…

This well-planned album offers three complementary works linked both by the genial spirit of Borodin...[his Sextet] has considerable charm...Both movements are played here by the Nash Ensemble... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The Japanese violinist Midori offers a conservative performance avoiding anything which would be construed as controversial. Her tempos are moderate, her vibrato well controlled and her intonation... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Bashmet is one of the last great figures in the long line of Russian instrumentalists stretching back to the Rubinstein brothers… in the mid-19th century. The sense of a musician living through... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…